You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
PETRARCHAnd men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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